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Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested three suspected Islamist militants over the murders of two prominent secular bloggers, including the “main planner” who they say is a British citizen. The Rapid Action Battalion said it had arrested Touhidur Rahman, 58, and two other “active members” of Ansarullah Bangla Team, which was …

A Pakistani court has sentenced 10 militants to life in prison for their involvement in the attack on Malala Yousafzai, nearly three years after the teenage education activist was shot and seriously wounded as she made her way to school in the country’s restive Swat region. Prosecutors in the north-western …

Shahid Mohammed The chief suspect in an arson attack that killed eight members of the same family in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in 2002, has been arrested in Pakistan following a decade-long global man hunt. Shahid Mohammed, 32, had been arrested and bailed soon after the fire which left three generations …

Authorities in Italy have released a Pakistani man who was removed from a UK-bound EasyJet flight after it was discovered he was travelling on a fake passport. The man, who is awaiting a decision on his request for political asylum in Italy, will be charged with possession of false papers …

A top al-Qaeda leader wanted in the United States for planning a bomb attack on the New York subway system has been killed in a raid by the Pakistani military. According to military officials, Adnan el Shukrijuma was killed in a dawn operation in remote South Waziristan, near the border …

A British-Pakistani man has been charged with the murder of a woman in Lahore. Ghulam Asia, 49, was gunned down outside her home in the city on 27 July last year. Tariq Rana, 30, is accused of killing her and will be tried in the UK after being arrested in …

Radical British-Pakistani Islamist Anjem Choudary is among nine people arrested in London for allegedly encouraging terrorism. Choudary, the former spokesperson for the extremist group al-Muhajiroun, and was detained by Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism unit in the early hours of Thursday morning. Whilst details of the men’s arrest have not been revealed, …

A British Pakistani man has been arrested by Scotland Yard investigators in connection with the 2010 murder of Pakistani politician Dr Imran Farooq in north London. A Yard spokesperson confirmed that the 30-year-old man was arrested at an address in Waltham Forest, East London this morning and is currently being …

An Indian woman from East London who was arrested in an anti-terror raid has been charged with the attempted murder of her mother. Kuntal Patel, 36, a Barclays bank worker was arrested on Sunday in a swoop of a property in Stratford by counter terrorism officers of the Metropolitan Police. …

Police in Sri Lanka have arrested the chief suspect in the murder of British Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh. A spokesman for the police Central Investigations Department (CID) said that Sampath Chandrapushpa Vidanapathirana, a local council government councillor in the southern town of Tangalle, was arrested on Tuesday after months …